14-letter words containing a, r, c, h, s
- coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- colporrhaphies — Plural form of colporrhaphy.
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- cosmographical — Of or pertaining to cosmography.
- cost the earth — to be very expensive
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- courtesy coach — a free coach
- cranberry bush — a North American caprifoliaceous shrub or small tree, Viburnum trilobum, producing acid red fruit
- crash and burn — to fail; be unsuccessful
- crash for cash — denoting a type of insurance fraud in which people bring about road accidents to ensure that a substantial claim is made
- credit charges — the charges applied by credit card companies to customers buying goods on credit
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cross matching — the testing for compatibility of a donor's and a recipient's blood prior to transfusion, in which serum of each is mixed with red blood cells of the other and observed for hemagglutination.
- cross my heart — You can say 'cross my heart' when you want someone to believe that you are telling the truth. You can also ask 'cross your heart?', when you are asking someone if they are really telling the truth.
- cross-hatching — to mark or shade with two or more intersecting series of parallel lines.
- cruising yacht — a yacht which is used for holiday trips
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptaesthetic — of or relating to cryptaesthesia
- cryptographers — Plural form of cryptographer.
- cryptographist — the science or study of the techniques of secret writing, especially code and cipher systems, methods, and the like. Compare cryptanalysis (def 2).
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- curtain speech — a talk given in front of the curtain after a stage performance, often by the author or an actor
- cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
- cut and thrust — If you talk about the cut and thrust of an activity, you are talking about the aspects of it that make it exciting and challenging.
- darning stitch — a stitch used in darning that imitates the texture of the fabric that is to be mended
- dechristianize — to make non-Christian
- decorated shed — a contemporary design concept characterized by buildings generally of purely utilitarian design but with fronts intended to give them more grandeur or to announce their functions.
- deinonychosaur — Any omnivorous or carnivorous coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur of the clade Deinonychosauria.
- disaccharidase — an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides, as sucrose or lactose, to produce monosaccharides, as fructose or glucose.
- discharge head — The discharge head is the pressure at the discharge of a pump, measured as a height.
- discharge lamp — a lamp in which light is produced by an electric discharge in a gas-filled glass enclosure.
- discharge rate — The discharge rate is the rate at which a process produces waste or a product.
- discharge tube — gas tube.
- discographical — Of or pertaining to discography.
- disenchantress — a woman who disenchants
- disenfranchise — to disfranchise.
- disfranchising — Present participle of disfranchise.
- disinheritance — Law. to exclude from inheritance (an heir or a next of kin).
- dispatch rider — a horseman or motorcyclist who carries dispatches
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- eastern church — any of the churches originating in countries formerly part of the Eastern Roman Empire, observing an Eastern rite and adhering to the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Byzantine Church.
- eastern thrace — an ancient region of varying extent in the E part of the Balkan Peninsula: later a Roman province; now in Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece.
- ecocatastrophe — a disaster caused by changes in the environment.
- encephalograms — Plural form of encephalogram.